Guides for building your own logistics website
For owners who build their own site on Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy or an AI builder. Each guide covers what your site has to show, the pages it needs and what builders get wrong, and the free tools check what you built.
- What your site has to show
- The pages it needs
- Free tools to check it
4 guides Free to read Updated October 2026
Build it yourself
Free guides for owners who build their own site
Plenty of logistics companies start with a website builder or an AI tool, and for a new company that can be the right call. Pick the guide for your kind of company; the free tools check what you built.
Free check
Logistics Website Check
Already have a site? Get a free score: your FMCSA record, what search engines and AI can read, and what to fix first.
Free tool
FMCSA Compliance Block Generator
Enter your USDOT or MC number and get the FMCSA lines your site should show, each marked required or recommended.
Free tool
Website Cost Calculator
What a site costs in year one, in cash and your time: doing it yourself or having us build it, every price sourced.
Free tool
AI Visibility Checker
Does ChatGPT name you when a buyer asks who to hire? Ten buyer questions for your city, the answers by email.
Guide
Trucking website builder guide
For carriers: what to show shippers and drivers, the pages you need and what AI builders get wrong.
Guide
Freight broker website builder guide
Broker status, USDOT, MC and bond, carrier setup and a shipper quote form, and how to check yours.
Guide
Moving company website builder guide
The FMCSA links and numbers a mover's site must carry, estimates done right, and the common mistakes.
Guide
Logistics website templates
The pages couriers, freight forwarders and 3PLs need, what each has to show, and how to pick a builder.
Before you publish
Check that search engines and AI assistants can read your site
The one fault you can't see on screen. It applies whatever you built with.
A page can look perfect in your browser and still arrive almost empty at a search engine. Some builders, AI app builders especially, send a bare page and fill in the text with scripts after it loads. Google gets to those scripts eventually; the crawlers behind AI assistants, when last measured, didn't run them at all.
The test takes two minutes and needs nothing but your browser. If your words aren't in the source, ask your builder's support how to publish pages with the text in the HTML. Most call it prerendering or server-side rendering.
The Logistics Website Check runs this test for you, along with your FMCSA details, contact details and email records.
The view-source test, about two minutes
- On your live site, right-click the page and choose View Page Source, or press Ctrl+U (Option+Cmd+U on a Mac).
- Press Ctrl+F (Cmd+F) and search for a sentence you can see on the page, like your headline.
- Found: crawlers get your words. Not found, and the source is mostly script tags: the page builds itself in the browser. Ask your builder to turn on server rendering or prerendering, then test again.
- Search the source for <title>. Each page needs its own, saying what that page is. The same title on every page tells search engines every page is the same.
Why it matters: Google runs a page's scripts, though it can take longer to get to them. When Vercel measured AI crawlers in December 2024, the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity didn't run scripts at all, so they only read what's in that source (Vercel, "The rise of the AI crawler").
Or not
When you'd rather not build it yourself
Talk to Nicolas
Nicolas Perez, Co-founder & CEO
He and his co-founder, Noah Alvarez, build every site themselves, for logistics companies only. Ask about your site, whether we build it or you do.
Rather call? (661) 666-2416
Our build
- $2,450 flat, up to 20 pages
- Live in two weeks
- Built by logistics operators
See what a site built for your niche includes
One flat price, the pages your buyers check, and a person to call when something breaks.